Isthmus Picks for Nov. 4-11 includes the annual UW Art Department fall open studios day; the premiere of a virtual Madison Area Music Awards; the return of Broom Street Theater; and much more.
Broom Street Theater and Knowledge Workings present a new play by Joe Queenan and TJ Elliott. The playwriting team’s third and latest effort, Genealogy, explores how a shocking ancestral connection revealed during the taping of a reality podcast incites a series of surprising negotiations and unanticipated antics among its participants.
ONLINE: Loud N Unchained Black Theater Festival
May 1, 2021 6:00 PM
April 19, 2021
Dana Pellebon
T. S. Banks is directing a collection of spoken word pieces and monologues in the Loud N Unchained Black Theater Festival.
Several years in the making, this celebration of theater, music, poetry and performance art written, directed and performed by Black artists was originally on the schedule last summer at Broom Street Theater. The LNU Festival instead will make its debut virtually with five filmed performances premiering free of charge at blacktheaterfestival.com (7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Friday, 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Saturday). The fest includes works by Austin Dean Ashford, Sean Avery, Quanda Johnson and Rachel Lynett, as well as a showcase of spoken word and drag performances by Madison and Milwaukee performers. Note, each performance will only be available at the time it premieres.
ONLINE: Loud N Unchained Black Theater Festival
Apr 30, 2021 7:00 PM
April 19, 2021
Dana Pellebon
T. S. Banks is directing a collection of spoken word pieces and monologues in the Loud N Unchained Black Theater Festival.
Several years in the making, this celebration of theater, music, poetry and performance art written, directed and performed by Black artists was originally on the schedule last summer at Broom Street Theater. The LNU Festival instead will make its debut virtually with five filmed performances premiering free of charge at blacktheaterfestival.com (7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Friday, 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Saturday). The fest includes works by Austin Dean Ashford, Sean Avery, Quanda Johnson and Rachel Lynett, as well as a showcase of spoken word and drag performances by Madison and Milwaukee performers. Note, each performance will only be available at the time it premieres.
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